Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> cranky's cabin digest [rosler lukens taiuti assange
irving]
> Bowie addresses also indidicate that the rock star is about as
> significant now the horse and buggy were in the 1950s. In a world where
> any bastard with a firewire port and the inclination can be a pop-idol,
> who gives a fuck about interviewing a pop idol? What happens when
> celebrity is disconnected from $?, and will $ be all about celebrity and
> not about units sold, or will something we dont expect happen? Stay
> (de)tuned.
Maybe there is a limited "celebrity space" in our brains, so each can consume
maybe 5-10-20 celebrities of assorted flavours ? So then there is a fierce
competition between various (con) artists, government thugs and other
intellectuals to enter your celebrity space. So globalisation *reduces* total
number of celebrities, and I finally realise now why many free-speech
pro-freedom open-source anti-war celebrities oppose globalisation - they are
being squeezed out.
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Max writes:
Various people have said this–"limited celebrity space"–in diff ways over
the millennia. Benjamin called it "rescuing criticism," the basic idea of
how to live when nothing more can be added or capitalized. He posited a
constant (say K) of cognitive human potential, which varies only on the
infinitesimal (limit-wise) error-plane of messianic jetztzeit.
Yeats said "it can never grow by and inch or an ounce" in "Lapis Lazuli."
The Second Commandment is also about the limit at hand. As are the First
Amendment and every document of culture in history, arguably.
Max Herman
genius2000.net
related urls:
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/777/ ["Lapis Lazuli"]
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/Faculty/Interviews/Dobbs-Weinstien.ht
ml
http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/column.html
[Ha, matches 5 and 6 for "Walter Benjamin Theologico-Politcal Fragment" on
Google are g2k now.]
http://www.bpc.org/resources/wsc/wsc_049.html [2nd commandment]
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
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